From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753405Ab3LFPef (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Dec 2013 10:34:35 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:18254 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751749Ab3LFPed (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Dec 2013 10:34:33 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 10:34:13 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Benjamin LaHaise Cc: Gu Zheng , linux-aio@kvack.org, fsdevel , linux-kernel , Al Viro , Kent , Kristian Nielsen Subject: Re: [PATCH] aio: clean up aio ring in the fail path Message-ID: <20131206153413.GA31613@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Benjamin LaHaise , Gu Zheng , linux-aio@kvack.org, fsdevel , linux-kernel , Al Viro , Kent , Kristian Nielsen References: <529F019A.2040401@cn.fujitsu.com> <20131206152654.GD13581@kvack.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131206152654.GD13581@kvack.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:26:54AM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 06:19:06PM +0800, Gu Zheng wrote: > > Clean up the aio ring file in the fail path of aio_setup_ring > > and ioctx_alloc. And maybe it can fix the GPF issue reported by > > Dave Jones: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/25/898 > > Good catch. I've applied this to my aio-next tree. It does indeed look > like it could be the cause of Dave's GPF -- I'll try to trigger it with > some other kernel debug options on and see if the EAGAIN failure case can > trip it up. I think I forgot to reply and let you know this seems to fix it for me. Dave